Jake & Peter Backstroke

Jake, you will be able to see the short walls and lack of flexibility in your upperbody on your backstroke. The bobbing needs to be minimized as well, but the easy speed that is available off of the walls needs to be worked on BIG TIME!! Cycle rate is good. Peter, great walls with nice speed via the kick!! I would like to see more emphasis on the kick while on the surface and those 50's could have been turned up a notch in cycle rate!!!

Team Challenge Series

In the yearly battle of Team Challenges after today's "Static Hang Challenge", Liquid Grunt has taken a 3-2 lead in the series. Today's challenge which is considered a mental toughness challenge Liquid Grunt posted an average time of 1:25.89 with the Frederson's averaging 58.1 seconds per man. Marius Michalik posted the top time with a 2:19.

Top 5 Performers
1. Marius Michalik 2:19.0
2. David Kundzik 1:39.7
3. Jared Robinson 1:36.7
4. Mike Dansa 1:35.9
5. Brady Bradshaw 1:33.8

Other Challenge Results

45 lb. Plate Walk's
Fredersons Ave. 1:20.0/Liquid Grunt 1:20.5

1000 Kick for Time
Liquid Grunt Ave 15:59/Fredersons 16:29

Death Ball
Liquid Grunt 4-0

Cuba Lake Challenge
Frederson's

Cuba Lake Challenge Results

On a beautiful Saturday morning 22 competitors started their venture around the serene perimeter of Cuba Lake to begin the third annual Cuba Lake Challenge. The 4.7 mile run followed by a roughly 900 yards swim took less that 49 minutes to complete. A group of some 60 spectators watched intently from Cottage 333 with their binoculars while getting periodic updates via the walkie talkies which kept them in tune with the contest. In the end sophomore Kevin Murphy emerged from the lake in a Cuba Lake Challenge record time of 48.42 some 4 1/2 minutes faster than his freshman year effort.

Results:

1. Kevin Murphy 48.42
2. Dan Quirk 49.45
3. Jake Greene 52.38
4. Jared Robinson 53.37
5. David Kundzik 53.39
6. Santiago Castaneda 53.57
7. Ilya Nenashev 54.14
8. Brady Bradshaw 55.25
9. Chris Baker 55.52
10. Mariusz Michalik 56.17
11. Yi Liu 56.28
12. Mike Dansa 57.21
13. Clayton Coleman 57.52
14. Peter Koenig 58.05
15. Chris Happel 58.06
16. Francisco Nieves 59.00
17. Hunter Baskerville 1:00.33
18. Ivan Rodriguez 1:01.04
19. Pat Henahan 1:03.00
20. Rob Erickson 1:05.44

A huge thank you goes out to the Prizels for hosting this annual event that I anticipate growing into having an alumni division next year, so we can give you a reason to bust out that old speedo once again!!!

Morning Workout

Here are some of the activities from practice this morning.

Warming House

It's Wednesday and time for our weekly trip to volunteer at the Warming House in Olean. We serve every Wednesday at a SBU run soup kitchen that has been in place for over 30 years. Members of the team prepare, serve and clean up for some of Olean's needy. Ilya Nenashev (Satka, Russia), David Kundzik (Radom, Poland), Pat Butler (Greeneville, RI)and Francisco Nieves (Fort Worth, TX) serve up the food.